"Charles Murray, political scientist and American Enterprise Institute scholar, spoke (or tried to) in March at Middlebury College, a liberal arts college in Vermont.
A group of conservative students had invited him to speak about his 2012 book “Coming Apart,” which describes growing class divides among whites.
Yet Murray was shouted down by a mob of students, and the event turned violent, with a faculty member getting injured.
The opposing students bought rhetoric from the Southern Poverty Law Center that describes Murray as a “white nationalist.”These incidents are happening with growing frequency and severity around the country.
It’s moved beyond college students simply expressing their point of view: They want to block differing views altogether.
...Take what happened last fall at Kellogg Community College.
Security officers at the Battle Creek school arrested students handing out pocket-sized Constitutions because they hadn’t received a permit ahead of time.
...Some school administrators, as in the case with Kellogg, overly enforce speech policies when they don’t like the message students are spreading.
One of the bills would make universities track free speech incidents and how administrators dealt with these situations.
“The universities are in denial,” Colbeck says..."
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